thank you Y.. I was just a spectator on the KobeBeef.com auction (never owned it)... it was simply a name that popped up once I began paying attention. But agree, a very neat one that was tempting. Not sure who owns it now.
have you considered farming? you could simply dabble in it to see if you have base interest, and if so, continue digging deeper (pun intended, I guess). I continually see coders move into farming with great success, as there seem to be many overlaps. There's a good gardening/farming channel on YT called Epic Gardening that provides lots of educational content. Maybe that's a good start?
great .com domain names were the cheat-code I was blindly searching for. The unfair advantage they present allowed me to compete head-to-head with larger entities. I still play in these waters.
thanks Jun8... writing these small essays is taxing (but rewarding) - I can't imagine what it's like to write a book (unlikely). If I ever do, it'll be similar to how Derek Sivers writes (short chapters)... no persona here, though.. just someone who's been laid off a lot, and channels William Faulkner style of writing..and also, hard to write a book when I've got onions to ship!! : ) (peter here)
when my senior year rolled around, I still didn't know what my major was going to be. I visited a guidance counselor, and she viewed all the classes I had inadvertently taken, and I'd fulfilled 3/4 of a History degree (a Southern History degree, no less - they offer it at my alma, Ole Miss). So I just went with that and read a few more William Faulkner novels : )
I mainly 'leeched' the table, tr, td row design aspect, as I had no idea that existed.. fwiw, I didn't copy anything else (text, images, etc)... that 'scaffolding' was helpful until I discovered Wordpress. And I dislike ads just as much as you. I usually just put 1 or 2 on the page. no popup nonsense or 'blasting' ads, ha. Now, since I sell onions in the internet, I'm the one often advertising on these types of small niche sites, and they tend to perform better than larger properties... either way, my 2c. (author here)
thank you sph... it took me a while to cobble together a title that made sense.. and I'm far from an seo expert.. I learned the basics and sortof winged it from there.. ping me on twitter.. I hang out there usually..
I sold AT for $30k, and primarily used the proceeds from that to acquire DR.. I was still working 9-5 then also, so I was prepared to spend upwards of $50k to acquire DR (as that industry seemed like a good fit for me) (author here, fyi)
at the time, it felt society was telling me to 'speed up', get this done, achieve that, yayaya.. but I sorta preferred taking the slower route. This scene helped cement that mindset. Tall trees grow slow.
when we started the vidalia onions project, nothing was automated. We'd accept order w/ stripe integration. We'd manually type in shipping info into UPS shipping terminal & print shipping label at packing shed. We'd then package & ship the Vidalias. Nowadays we've somewhat automated that through shopify & shipstation integrations. (ie. this project: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter... )
Peter (author) here.. we have a tiktok account (https://www.tiktok.com/@vidaliaonions).. I'm gonna try to do a better job uploading farm vids during our 2023 crop : )
Peter (author) here.. yessir, we do .. we had the opportunity to acquire that a few years after this project began, and pulled the trigger to take that name off the market. Aries (our farmer) mainly uses it for email : )